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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE D. BURTON AND EDWIN F. PERKINS, OF BOSTON, MASS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,897, dated July 28, 1885.

Application filed May 13, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE D. BURTON and EDWIN F. PERKINs, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Stock: Cars, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to improve stock-cars, especially those for carrying horses, whereby each horse may have his own stall, and may stand therein without liability of being kicked by any other horse, the said car containing an intermediate apartment for the attendant.

The improved car herein to be described has two series of stalls arranged at each end, each series being separated from the other by a strong partition, each stall being divided from the one next to it by a partition, and each stall containing a trough for feed and-water. 'The attendants apartment is at the center, and the fodder-locker is arranged under it. Doors from each side the car enter the apartment both for the horses and for the attendant, and pipes leading from outside the car lead water into the troughs as needed.

The particular features in which this invention consists will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the'claims at the end of this specification.

Figure l in side elevation represents a stock-car embodying the invention herein to be described; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a horizontal section in the line w as, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the car-body in the line m, Fig. "1, and Fig. 5 a like section in the line 00 The car-body A, made a little larger than in ordinary stock-cars, is divided transversely by partitions A A A A, constituting five apartments, B, B, B, B and O, the latter being for the attendant, while the other apartments are for the horses. The attendants room 0 is at the center of the car, has a back, a, and doors a a", and directly under the said apartment is the feed-locker a. The apartments B B, 850., each separate from the other, are divided by longitudinal partitions b I), thus constituting stalls leading from an alley-way across the car and closed at opposite ends with No model.)

a door, d d. The apartments B B, 8m, have strong plank flooring extended back from within the stalls nearly across the alley-way, and the partitions A A &o., are strengthened by strong planks or boards, as at 0, extended from the floor of the car upward for part of the height of the said partitions. Each stall hasa manger, 6, having at its top a tipping or other metal trough, 6, into which may be introduced water through the branch pipe 6 connected with the main pipe 6 extended along the ceiling of the car, and having at one or both ends receivers e, the said receivers being covered by doors 0 as usual in other stock cars. Feed may be supplied to the trough through the door f, one for each trough.

The partitions A A of the attendants apartment 0 have each a door, 9, to lead into one of the apartments for horses, and a slide door, h, one being at one and the other at the opposite side of the car, thus enabling him to enter the apartments B B at either side while the car is in motion.

We claim 1. Astock-car divided transversely by partitions A A A A to constitute a central apartment, 0, for the attendant, and at each side the twoindependent apartments B B and B B respectively, for horses, the latter apartments being divided by longitudinal partitions b to form stalls leading from one alley closed at its ends by doors, substantially as described.

2. A stock-oar divided transversely by par titions A A A A to constitute a central apartment, 0, for the attendant, and at each side the two independent apartments B B and B B, respectively, for horses, the latter apartments being divided by longitudinal partitions b'to form stalls leading from one alley closed at its ends by doors, the apartments B B, 850., being provided with planking, as at 2, to strengthen the partitions separating the apartments, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEO. D. BURTON. EDWIN F. PERKINS.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. Fox, ALLSTON O. LADD. 

